National convention of silk growers and silk manufacturers. The silk question settled; the testimony of 150 witnesses. Report of the proceedings of the convention held in New York, Oct. 1843.

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The Silk grower and farmer's manual.

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Hints on the cultivation of the mulberry, with some general observations on the production of silk.

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The new American gardener; containing practical directions on the culture of fruits and vegetables; including landscape and ornamental gardening, grape-vines, silk, strawberries, etc. etc. /

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Essays on American silk, and the best means of rendering it a source of individual and national wealth, with directions to farmers for raising silk worms.

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Growth and manufacture of silk.

This report consists mainly of a letter written by Peter S. Du Ponceau for John D'Homergue, a native of France, regarding establishing a silk industry in the United States. The letter is dated Philadelphia, Feb. 23, 1830.

The silk culture in the United States; embracing complete accounts of the latest and most approved modes of hatching, rearing and feeding the silk-worm, managing a cocoonery, reeling, spinning, and manufacturing the silk, &c. ... With brief historical sketches of the silk business, natural history of the silk-worm, the mulberry, &c. comp. from the most approved and reliable works ... To which is added Blydenburgh's Manual of the silk culture; statistics of silk imports, &c., &c.

"The work ... has been prepared ... with the aid of Mr. I. R. Barbour ... we have ... profited by the article on silk in Dr. Ures ... dictionary of arts and sciences, Mr. Bliss's report on silk ... to the legislature of Ohio, Mr. Colman's report to the Massachusetts legislature, &c.; while we have quoted entire The silk manual of ... Mr. Blydenburgh." Advertisement, p. [3]

Speeches in the House of Commons, on Friday, the 24th of February, 1826, of Mr. John Williams ... of the Right Hon. Wm. Huskisson ... and of the Right Hon. George Canning ... on the motion, that a select committee be appointed to consider of the petition presented from persons connected with the silk trade.

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Growth and manufacture of silk. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives, of May 11, 1826, in relation to the growth and manufacture of silk, adapted to the different parts of the Union. February 7, 1828. Referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

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Observations on the ruinous tendency of the Spitalfields Act to the silk manufacture of London

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 23630.

A methodical treatise on the cultivation of the mulberry tree, on the raising of silk worms, and on winding the silk from the cocoons.

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The American silk growers guide; or, The art of raising the mulberry and silk, and the system of successive crops in each season.

Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 30853.9.

A manual containing directions for sowing, transplanting and raising of the mulberry tree : together with proper instructions for propagating the same by cuttings, layers, &c., &c. As also, directions for the culture of silk: to which is added, calculations shewing the produce and probable expense of cultivation of from one to ten acres, as tested by actual results /

Checklist Amer. imprints,

Powder and propellants : energetic materials at Indian Head, Maryland, 1890-1990 /

Shipping list no.: 90-601-P.

Five plays : The gods of the mountain, The golden doom, King Argimēnēs and the unknown warrior, The glittering gate, The lost silk hat /

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